Although greatly robbed, this is still an impressive cairn. It is about 30 metres in diameter and 2.5 metres in height. Two burial cists are visible and a third is known but hidden by replaced cairn material.
Cremated bones, flints, an axe and pottery were found in a 19th century excavation as well as a crouched burial beneath the paved floor of the cairn.
1/7 Looking east on the top of the cairn. The large rectangular slab in the foreground is the capstone of a cist.
2/7 Looking west on the top of the cairn. The burial space beneath the capstone can be seen, as can a flat edge of the slab forming the near wall of the cist.
3/7 Stones around the cist on the top of the cairn.
4/7 The cairn from the south.
5/7 The cairn from the southwest. A second burial space is very obvious in the near side of the cairn.
6/7 A closer view from the west.
7/7 Another view from the west.
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